Your Favourite Album of 2017

[jacko]

kate Rusby - Angels and men. Beautiful.

and deep purple Infinite - made the mistake of listening at 33 1/3. made Gillan sound like some old blues man.  Quite a bit better at 45. 

[Guest Jecklin]

I have bought a lot of music this year, but one album in particular I keep revisiting -

The solo, dark ambient double bass of Oto Lindholm on Alter on the Excellent Gizeh Records.

https://gizehrecords.bandcamp.com/album/alter

[boom boom]

Cats in Space - Scarecrow. Never heard of them, until I saw them as they supported Deep Purple, they were great, so bought the album.

[foxyFuze]

Seems to be a lot of nostalgic stuff listed here.....

As modern rock goes i.e. not dad rock / metal noodling, White Reaper nailed it this year with World's Best American Band:

 

[TrevorR]

Four to mention for me...

• To My Roots by Emma Stevens. Sparkly, uplifting country-tinged pop with an edge. A lovely positive album which manages that without any cheese.
• Gordon Giltrap and Paul Ward’s Last Of England was my personal highlight showing that Gordon is very much still at the top of his game. The last tune on the album is a track my wife and I commissioned as a 50th gift to each other so it’s particularly special for us. 
• Sonny Landreth, Live in Louisiana gives you two great CDs of swampy, Cajun flavoured blues. One disc acoustic one electric. Some great playing on there.
• Finally Legends of the Shires by British prog-metal veterans, Threshold. Loved this band for ages and this is some top heavy prog. 

 

 

[TrevorR]

PS no idea what happened to the font and no amount of selecting and resizing seems to make a difference!

[KingPrawn]

There are two albums that standout for me this year. 

Benjamin Clementine “ I tell a fly”

Declan O’Roukes “chronicles of the great Irish Famine”

 

[xgsjx]

I think my fave album of the year has been Resurgen by Fink.  Fantastic album.

Automaton by Jamiroquai is a great album too. 

For this month though, The Peace Project by Hillsong is very fitting.

[Marc S]

I tend not to buy many new releases as soon as they come out, but I really like Skinny Lister
They're an amazingly energetic live band, and great musicians with it. They have two lead vocalists, a male & female
But all the band do backing vocals too, and there's quite a few of them, so it's very effective, with lots of "Too-ray-ey 'ing"

Anyhow, their 2017 album; "The Devil, The Heart & The Fight" - far from being the difficult 2nd album, is great
 

 

Edited December 14, 2017 by Marc S

[FinnDave]

I very rarely buy any music these days, just listen to stuff on iTunes, but I made an exception for 'Hawkwind at the Roundhouse', a boxed set of two CDs and a DVD of the complete gig last May. Watched most of it last night and it certainly brought back some memories, as I was one of the happy throng in the audience that night.

[Dad3353]

1 hour ago, FinnDave said:

I very rarely buy any music these days, just listen to stuff on iTunes, but I made an exception for 'Hawkwind at the Roundhouse...

Good call; ordered. Thanks for the tip-off. 

I remember leaving the Kingston College concert, circa 1972, before they set the place afire with their pyrotechnics. Long drape curtains all around the hall; a recipe for disaster..! It all ended well, of course, but I listened to the finale from outside; I felt safer..! Heady daze. 

[FinnDave]

12 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

Good call; ordered. Thanks for the tip-off. 

I remember leaving the Kingston College concert, circa 1972, before they set the place afire with their pyrotechnics. Long drape curtains all around the hall; a recipe for disaster..! It all ended well, of course, but I listened to the finale from outside; I felt safer..! Heady daze. 

They really haven't changed much over the years, people come and go but Brocky is still at the helm, and with a new young bass player they sound more like they used to than they have for years. Fifty years and counting!

[Dad3353]

Real 'old school', just how I like it..!

[steantval]

2 hours ago, FinnDave said:

They really haven't changed much over the years, people come and go but Brocky is still at the helm, and with a new young bass player they sound more like they used to than they have for years. Fifty years and counting!

They still haven't got the naked gyrating girl on stage with them are they?

Blimey, she would be about 70 now ???

[FinnDave]

39 minutes ago, steantval said:

They still haven't got the naked gyrating girl on stage with them are they?

Blimey, she would be about 70 now ???

No longer with the band but active on Facebook.

[Monkey Steve]

1 hour ago, FinnDave said:

No longer with the band but active on Facebook.

define "active"...

Edited December 14, 2017 by Monkey Steve

[FinnDave]

38 minutes ago, Monkey Steve said:

define "active"...

Posts and interacts with people like me.

[foxyFuze]

Oh and stepping into new stuff again..... Death from Above have knocked out another cracker.  An excellent bass and drums duo that show the bloated and boresome Royal Blood how it's done:

 

[Dad3353]

Duo ^^ ..? That's a lot of tracks to play and sing at once for a duo..! 

[foxyFuze]

46 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

Duo ^^ ..? That's a lot of tracks to play and sing at once for a duo..! 

Indeed; bassist loops the synth in while playing, pretty impressive!

[Dad3353]

... and the vocals..? 

[foxyFuze]

7 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

... and the vocals..? 

The drummer 

[Dad3353]

He's got a pretty good harmoniser, then..! 

[Quatschmacher]

“Together As One” by Dinosaur is a great album (was nominated for a Mercury Prize too).

[EliasMooseblaster]

It's good to know that I'm not alone in having this thread make me realise that I've hardly bought any music this year! In fact, I think the only contemporary album I've bought is Bjork's new album, Utopia. Can't say the album cover's going to go down as one of my favourites, but the music is excellent - a brighter and more optimistic sound than the raging darkness of Vulnicura, and as strange and challenging as I've come to expect from her.